2022-09-02                         from the editor of ~insom
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   Skipped all of August on here, somehow.

   _Right_ now, I am sitting on my front porch watching a
   totally over the top thunderstorm with heavy rain sweep in
   out of nowhere. I recall thunderstorms being smaller and
   rarer when I grew up (because I grew up in a different
   country, not because of climate change, although that could
   be playing a part, too).

   Given that I'm on a hill and I have cover, this is just
   exciting for me. It's raining so hard I only have like 20m
   of visibility, and there's a halo all around the lone street
   light that's visible on my street. Lightning is coming about
   every minute or so.

   I, once again, have been tempted to buy an amber screen
   glass terminal. It's probably something that I will just
   have to do some day, to get it out of my system, but for now
   a dose of `apt install cool-retro-term` is treating the
   symptoms.

   For me, I don't want a comically over the top retro
   experience, with bezel and noise etc. so I've basically got
   an amber full-screen emulation with a pixel font and some
   persistence of vision and a tiny amount of bloom. As with
   most photography / Lightroom presets, the defaults go way
   too hard.

   It's just an extra-pleasant way to catch up on Gemini, too.